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The New Year

And his eyfes, most gracious and ten-
der, were bent on mine.

In his hands he caught nt^ hands,
while clarion clear

His golden, rapturous, confident tones
rang forth:

Comrade, hail/ for I am the Nea>,
New Year.

Clinton Dange^fieU.

January

"What if the winds be wintry, if
the heart be strong? "

January

FIRST

He alone who begins life anew
each morning is truly living.

Siaimton D. Kirkham

SECOND

Oh, if men but knew in what a
small house joy can live, and how
little it costs to furnish it !

Emil Sottvestre

THIRD

The remedy for all blunders, the
cure of blindness, the cure of crime,
is love. Emerson

FOURTH

"Who rises from prayer a better
man, his prayer is answered.

Ceorge Meredith

FIFTH

From ignorance men go astray.

Dr. Paul Dubois

SIXTH

I want you to look at every lovely
thing in the world and remember it,
and forget the rest. Bume-Jones

January

SEVENTH

Give us the wages of going on.

Term^son

EIGHTH

So remember to keep well; and
remember anything rather than not
to keep well; eind again I say, any-
thing rather than not to keep well.
R. L. Stevenson

NINTH

Do you seek the great opportun-
ity? You can find it precisely
where you are now.

Dr, Elwood Worcester

TENTH

Give me to pluck, what time the day

is spent.
The leaves of that rare rose that is

content ;
To press to lips when stars burn

bright above.
The petals of that lily that is love.

Clinton Scollard

Jemueivy

ELEVENTH

Man is rich in proportion to the
number of things he can a&Bcd -to
let alone. Thoreau

TWELFTH

Properly speaking all true work
is religion. Carl\)le

THIRTEENTH

The only purpose of knowing is to

teach ; the only purpose of having is

to give; the only purpose of being I

strong is to lift some part of the

weight of the world.
I Thomas R. Sheer

FOURTEENTH

Oh, make us happy and you make
us glad. Browning

FIFTEENTH .

Come m, chillen, *fo' de darkness

fall.
I don't want to be missin' airy child

at all—
G)me m, chillen, de good and - all.
Martha Young

January

SIXTEENTH

The best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work
worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

SEVENTEENTH

Today, whatever may annoy.

The word for me is joy, just simple

joy- John Kendrick Bangs

EIGHTEENTH

^ TTie worth of a man depends on
his will, not on his knowledges

Kant

NINETEENTH

Take life as though you were born
to the task of performing a merry
part in it — as though the world
waited for your coming. Spurgeon

TWENTIETH

Religion is just being friends with
God the Father above and the broth-
er by our side. Washington Gladden

January

TWENTY-FIRST

"If you know anything good and
helpful, tell it."

TWENTY-SECOND

Nothing distresses us when we
have ceased to fear it. Seneca

TWENTY-THIRD '

They might not need me, yet they

might,
I'll let my heart He just in sight.
A smile so small as mine, might be
Precisely their necessity.

Emilyi Dickinson

TWENTY-FOURTH

It is the senseless craving for "fur-
niture and effects" that keeps us all
slaves. Horatio Dresser

TWENTY-FIFTH

Believe yourself well. It prevents
many disorders. Dr. Paul Dubois

January

TWENTY-SIXTH

The durable satisfactions of life
are to be found in the study of nat-
ural history and in the domestic af-
fections. Charles Darwin

TWENTY-SEVENTH

"Give, if thou canst, in alms; if not,

afford
Instead of that, a sweet and gentle

word."

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Love is not getting, but giving.

//enrp Van D\)ke

TWENTY-NINTH

Nothing can take from me the
blessing of having tried.

"John, the Unafraid"

THIRTIETH

Who is rich? He who is satisfied
with his share. Who is strong? He
who governs himself. fy Talmud

THIRTY-FIRST

"Where is there a man who is not
self-made if made at all?"

F€»bruary

The golden meadoivs sleep in snoWt
But underneath the grasses grow.
And daisies dream of hud and bloTi>.
Ellen Hutchinson

February

FIRST

Every day should have some part
Free for a Sabbath of the heart.

Wordsworth

SECOND

It is a low benefit to give me some-
thing; it is a high benefit to enable
me to do somewhat of myself.

Emerson

THIRD

Simply do the best you know, then
trust. Horatio Dresser

FOURTH

Always remember this all your
life ... A man is never defeated
until the very last shot is fired. And
remember this too: that even if he
is defeated he is never beaten, pro-
vided he has done the very best he
could and has never lost heart.

Stewart Edward White

FIFTH

Truth is the strong thing.
Let man*s hfe be true.

Browning

Fpbrudpy

SIXTH
"The man who does not enjoy his
job never does it well. If he does,
he makes others happy."

SEVENTH
He who loveth best serveth best,
and will readiest overlook wrongs
done himself. Wilfred T. Crenfell

EIGHTH

Enthusiasm is the fundamental
quality of strong souls. Carlyile

NINTH

True religion is a life, not a belief.
Henr^ Pritcheit

TENTH
What we get we must earn, if it
is to be truly ours. David Starr Jordan

ELEVENTH
One thing is more necessary even
them to teach children to write and
read : it is to teach them the gladness
of life, the joy of battle, the triumph
of supreme effort even though it lead
to what the world terms failure.

Helen Woljeska

February

TWELFTH

All places that the eye of heaven
visits are to a wise man ports and
happy havens. Shakespeare

THIRTEENTH

Manners are but morals wearing
their best hats and< gowns.

Anna A. Rogers

FOURTEENTH

Religion in the shape of mind-cure
gives to some of us serenity, moral
poise, and happiness, and prevents
certain forms of disease as well as
science does, or even better in a cer-
tain class of persons. William James

FIFTEENTH

What a man is declares itself
through what he does.

Phillips Broods

SIXTEENTH

We are predominantly good, pre-
dominantly healthy, even the worst
of us; and it is right that we should
have that in mind.

Dr. Luther H. GuUck

February

SEVENTEENTH

Are you in earnest? Seize this very

minute.
What you can do, or dream you can,

begin it. Coethe

EIGHTEENTH

Now there is no preservative and
antiseptic, nothing that keeps one's
heart young like love, like sympathy,
like giving oneself vsath enthusiasm to
some worthy thing or cause.

John Burroughs

NINETEENTH

Lift where you stand.

Edward Everett Hale

TWENTIETH

Money is not required to buy one
necessity for the soul. Thoreau

TWENTY-FIRST

"She did not show me how to
succeed, but she gave me courage to
meet failure with a light heart."

February

TWENTY-SECOND

There are not many men in this
world, after all, that it will not pay
us to go to school to — for something
or other. David Gra})son

TWENTY-THIRD

I shall count nothing a failure but
a failure to do right.

Charles E. Hughes

TWENTY-FOURTH

The best civilization cannot live
without flowers amy more than it can
live without pictures. ^. //. Bailey

TWENTY-FIFTH

Heaven is a place with many
doors, and each may enter in his own
way. Hindu Proverb

TWENTY-SIXTH

In years foregone, O Soul, was all

not well?
Still lovelier life awaits thee. Fear

not thou. T. B. Aldrich

February

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Can't none of us help what traits
we start out with, but we can help
what we end up with.

Alice Hegan Rice

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Beloved Pan, and all ye Gods
who here abide, make us more beau-
tiful within. Socrates

TWENTY-NINTH

She had the essential attributes of
a lady — high veracity, delicate honor
in her dealings, deference to others,
and refined personal habits.

George Eliot

SPDING

All seasons point forward: spring,
into this life; autumn, into the life
to come.

Maroh

HoV> the March sun feels like May!

And sunshine comes like an old

smile.
And the fresh waters, and awakened

birds.
And budding woods await us.

Brojvning

Maroh

FIRST

To-morrow is not, yesterday is not.

To-day alone is — and to-day is

thine. Ina Coolbirth

SECOND

The first wealth is health.

Emerson

THIRD

Optimism is the faith that leads to
achievement. Helen Keller

FOURTH

Arbitration is good, but there are
times when it becomes necessary to
knock a man down and arbitrate sit-
ting on him. Jacob A. Riis

FIFTH
There is no solution of trouble
while we dwell upon it.

Horatio Dresser

SIXTH

Goodness is the cause of beauty
in everything. Plato

Mavoh

SEVENTH

For curious eyes and a reverent
heart this world is a wonderful place
for a man to be born into.

Bume-Jones

EIGHTH

For when we gladly eat our daily

bread, we bless
The hand that feeds us;
And when we walk along life's way

in cheerfulness
Our very heart-beats praise the love

that leads us.

Henry Van Dyk^

NINTH
For man is man and master of his
*^*^* Tennyson

TENTH

Misfortune nobly borne is good
fortune. j^^^^^^ Aurdim

ELEVENTH

There is nothing supremely beau-
tiful but genuine simplicity.

Bradford Torrey

March

TWELFTH

A merry countenance maketh a
cheerful heart. William James

THIRTEENTH

For all right judgment of any man
or thing it is useful, nay essential, to
see his good qualities before pro-
nouncing on his bad. Carl^le

FOURTEENTH

Economy is not parsimony, but
efficient expenditure. /. M. Adam

FIFTEENTH

There is nothing that makes men

rich and strong but that which they

cany inside of them. Wealth is of

the heart and not of the hand.

Milton

SIXTEENTH

A man is as good as he tries to be.
"John, the Unafraid*'

Maroh

SEVENTEENTH

Let us fold away our fears.
And put by our foolish tears.
And through all the coming years
Just be glad. James Whiicomh Rile})

EIGHTEENTH

Christ taught the love that serves.
Charles Kornach

NINETEENTH

Men need fitting for work; they
need also fitting for leisure.

Canon Barrett

TWENTIETH

And who gives thanks? He who

with helping touch
Raises the thirsty plant; who pities

much
The tired beast; to poor gives alms

of love.
Has writ his thanks, in words of fire,

above. Edith A. Talbot

TWENTY-FIRST

It is wicked to worry.

Annie Payson Call

Maroh

TWENTY-SECOND

The misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never happen.

Lorvell

TWENTY-THIRD

Morals may subsist with wealth.
It is only luxury which vitiates.

Carroll D. Wright

TWENTY-FOURTH

Do good work whether you live
or die ; it is the entrance to all king-
doms. Rusk'm

TWENTY-FIFTH

Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that fciith let us dare
do our duty as we understcind it.

Lincoln

TWENTY-SIXTH

"Two men looked out from prison

bars;
One saw mud, the other stars."

Mdroh

TWENTY-SEVENTH

It is God's law that those things
which are to Hve must grovy.

Robert Marion LaFolletie

TWENTY-EIGHTH

If you have got a good thing, hand
it on, share it as far as you can ; your
own share will not be denied you.

W, S. Rainsford

TWENTY-NINTH

Was some one asking to see the soul?
See your own shape and counte-
nance, lyalt Whitman

THIRTIETH

Man should not postpone his life
until after his own funeral, but should
begin his eternity now.

W. W. Thobum

THIRTY-FIRST

If you do one thing better than
any one else, if it be only the making
of a mouse-trap, the world will be
sure to tread a path to your door.

Emerson

April

All the host of ^oung things
Feel a stirring as of Tvings,
And are jvakened from their dreams,
B}) the warm and sunn}) gleam
Of April sunshine in the air; —
Springtime*s splendor everywhere.

Benjamin Leggeti

April

FIRST

Loss of interest, not years, is old
age. David Cra^son

SECOND

Every day is a fresh beginning.
Listen, my soul, to the glad re-
frain.
And spite of sorrow and older sin-
ning.
And problems forecasted and pos-
sible pain.
Take heart with the day and begin
again. Susan Coolidge

THIRD

I judge of a man by his hope.

Emerson

FOURTH

"Face the cause of your worry
fairly and squarely. Decide what
you can do about it, do, it, and then
forget it."

FIFTH

He alone who puts heart into it
will do anything worth while.

Staunton D. Kirkham

April

SIXTH

It is not the absence of good but
the invidious and blighting contrast
of conditions which constitutes real
poverty. /. a^. philUps

SEVENTH

Strive to keep a free, open sense,
cleared from the mists of prejudice,
above all from the paralysis of cant.

Caddie

EIGHTH

If we had but faith— wherein we
fail — whate'er we yearn for would
be granted us. Broi»ning

NINTH

Day of judgment? It is a syno-
nym for the present moment — it is
eternally going on. Bume-Jones

TENTH

"Persevere wisely: success comes
at last."

April

ELEVENTH

If we could always realize our
ideals when we wished, we should
lose the full benefit of failure.

Horatio Dresser

TWELFTH

As for health, consider yourselves
well. Thoreau

THIRTEENTH

That which is first worth knowing
is that which is nearest at hand.

L. H. Bade})

FOURTEENTH

This man is an optimist. It means
that he has struggled. That man is
a pessimist. It means that he has
shirked. John Joy Chapman

FIFTEENTH

The world is too much with us ; late

and soon.
Getting and spending, we lay waste

our powers. Wordsworth

/

April

SIXTEENTH

Excess of luxury leaves no room
for comfort. Marcus Aurel'ms

SEVENTEENTH

The best way to secure future
happiness is to be as happy as is
rightfully possible to-day.

Charles Eliot

EIGHTEENTH

We live beside each other day by
day

And speak of myriad things, but sel-
dom say

The full sweet word that lies just in
our reach

Beneath the commonplace of com-
mon speech. j\lora Perry

NINETEENTH

Who grasps the moment as it flies,
he is the real man. Goethe

TWENTIETH

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these
come before all morality! They are
the perfect duties. 7^. £. Stevenson

April

TWENTY-FIRST
The forces that tend for evil are
great and terrible, but the forces of
truth and love and courage and gen-
erosity and sympathy are also strong-
er than ever before.

Theodore Roosevelt

TWENTY-SECOND
Peace if possible, justice at any
rate. Wendell Phillips

TWENTY-THIRD

If you git knocked out of one
place, you want to git yourself an-
other right quick, before your spirits
have a chance to fall. Mrs. Wiggs

TWENTY-FOURTH
To be informed is not the same
as to be wise. John C. Dana

TWENTY-FIFTH

"Not in the clamor of the crowded

street.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of

the throng.
But in ourselves are triumph and

defeat."

April

TWENTY-SIXTH

We are sad because we cry, we
are afraid because we run away.

William James

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Religion is the heart impulse that
turns toward the best cind highest
action. David Starr Jordan

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Comradeship is one of the finest
facts and one of the strongest forces
in life. H^gh Black

TWENTY-NINTH

Not the size of the task, but the
spirit shown in the task is the meas-
ure of the man. //, c. King

THIRTIETH

Every one is, in the scriptural
sense, the neighbor of all with whom
he comes in contact.

Richard C. Cabot

May

Spring *s coming and Summer s
coming.

A Summer of blossoming and Ma^.

Bronfning

May

FIRST

We are put into this world to
make it better, and we must be about
our business. General Armstrong

SECOND

There is in this world infinitely
more joy than pain to be shared, if
you will take your share when it is
offered. Ruskin

THIRD
Greed is cruelty. S. A. Bameil

FOURTH

The one fundamental fact is, that

what ought to be done can be done.

Washington Gladden

FIFTH

Hope evermore and believe, O man,
for e'en as thy thought.

So are the things that thou seest;
e*en as thy hope and belief.

Arthur Hugh Clough

May

SIXTH

Just the art of being kind is all this
sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

SEVENTH

No man has a right to all of his
rights. Phillips Brooks

EIGHTH

But look you, here *s the Grace of
God,
There *s neither price nor fee.
Duty nor toil, that can control
The power to love and see.

Bliss Carman
NINTH

"Don*t be discouraged. Dead
people are the only ones who never
make mistakes.**

TENTH

We all have need of sympathy,
by which men live. Bradle\f Cilman

ELEVENTH

Serve yourself by serving others.
Richard Whiting

May

TWELFTH

"Whoever is capable of joy may
learn to maintain it. . . . Wonder-
ful are the results of training in en-
joyment."

THIRTEENTH

Blessed is the man who has found
his work, let him ask no other bless-
edness. Carlylc

FOURTEENTH

If a man is to be happy, he must
be happy now ; if he is to be happy,
he must be happy here; if he is to be
happy, he must be happy in himself
and not in his conditions.

L^man Abbott

FIFTEENTH

"It does n't make a small man
any bigger to lift him up."

SIXTEENTH

Each age must worship its own
thought of God. Loivell

May

SEVENTEENTH

We learn by doing.

Edrvard Atkinson

EIGHTEENTH

I know but one elevation of a hu-
man being and that is elevation of
soul. Channing

NINETEENTH

"God gave us some this year; he
will give us some next year, and he
did not give it for ourselves alone."

TWENTIETH

Ye have read, ye have heard, ye
have thought. . . . Give answer —
what ha' ye done? Tomlimon

TWENTY-FIRST

Help people to help themselves.
Richard T. Eljf

May

TWENTY-SECOND

I know that there is nothing better
for them than to rejoice, and to do
good so long as they live. And also
that every man should eat and drink,
and enjoy good in all his labor.

King Solomon

TWENTY-THIRD

God has given us our relations.
Thank God, we can choose our
rriends. Emerson

TWENTY-FOURTH

It is with the heart only that one
captures a heart. f?. /^. Stevenson

TWENTY-FIFTH

"Not getting the better of another
person, but getting the better of our-
selves, is success."

TWENTY-SIXTH

Let our affection flow out to our
fellows; it would operate in a day
the greatest of all revolutions.

Emerson

lAay

TWENTY-SEVENTH

How much we could accomplish
and how strong we should be if we
did not fret. Charles Kornach

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Circumstances, however difficult,
are always without exception oppor-
tunities, and not limitations.

Annie Pay son Call

TWENTY-NINTH

The mistake of the poor is sup-
posing that money will make them
happy. lY. H. Mallock

THIRTIETH

No sooner the old hope drops to the
ground

Than a new one, straight to the self-
same mark I shape me.

BroTvning

THIRTY-FIRST

A mother is not a collection of fine
sayings, but an eternal influence of
fine arts. /)aviJ Starr Jordan

SUMMED

In this refulgent Summer it has been

a luxury to draw the breath of life.

The grass grows, the buds burst, the

meadow is spotted with fire and gold

in the trail of flowers. . . . The mystery

of nature was never displayed more

happily. . . . What invitation from

every faculty of man!

Emerson.

]unes bridesman, poet o the })ear.
Gladness on wings, the bobolink is

here;
Half-hid in tip-top apple blooms he

sings.
Or climbs against the breeze with

quiverin wings.
Or, given wa^ to*t in a mock despair.
Runs down a brook o laughter thro*

Lowell

Jttno

FIRST

Though his beginning be but poor

and low,
Thank God, a man can grow.

Florence Earle Coaies

SECOND
Be ye true in everything.

THIRD

Ruskin

Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace.

Ben Jonson

FOURTH

He possessed a kind of ugly cour-
age that made it easy for him to
speak with extraordinary plainness
of other men's defects.

Bradford Torres

FIFTH

A man has to live with himself,
and he should see to it that he al-
ways has good company.

Charles E. Hughes

Jttnp

SIXTH

I feel and I grieve, but I do not
worry. John Wesle\f

SEVENTH

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all.

Coleridge

EIGHTH

Wondrous is the strength of cheer-
fulness, altogether past calculation
its power of endurance. Carl^le

NINTH

We need greater solitude, more
intimate and personal reflection, and
less reading. Or, Pad Dubois

TENTH

The lure of the distant and the
difficult is deceptive. The great op-
portunity is where you are. Do not
despise your own place and hour.

John Burroughs

Jtin©

ELEVENTH

Poor and content is rich and rich
enough. Shakespeare

TWELFTH

"Do not let the good things of life
rob you of the best things."

THIRTEENTH

Beauty does not consist merely in
the shape and coloring of the face.
. . . Beauty is expression.

Jean Francois Millet

FOURTEENTH

Get thy tools ready:

God will give thee work.

Broivning

FIFTEENTH

It is no use lamenting over one's

mistakes in life; nothing is to be done

that way, and they are not all such

pure loss as they seem at the time.

The wisdom that comes of them is

to be had no other way.

Bume-Jones

Jtmo

SIXTEENTH
"Take hold and lift."

SEVENTEENTH

We think that there are circum-
stances in which we can treat human
beings without love, and there are
no such circumstances. Tolstoi

EIGHTEENTH

It is beautiful — the world and life

itself — I am glad I have lived.

RossetU
NINETEENTH

The practice of economy needs
training as much as the practice of
any other science.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

TWENTIETH

We believe more and more in the
true essence of religion — the great
command, "Bear ye one another's
burdens." Carroll D. Wright

TWENTY-FIRST

In the Bible "duty" is mentioned
but five times; "love" hundreds.

William Ceorge Jordan

JlHlQ

TWENTY-SECOND

Henceforth I whimper no more.
Wait Whitman

TWENTY-THIRD

Can anything be so elegant as to
have few wants and to serve them
oneself, so as to have somewhat left
to give, instead of being always
prompt to grab? Emerson

TWENTY-FOURTH
"Thy neighbor is thy fellowman."

TWENTY-FIFTH

The mintage of wisdom is to know
that rest is rust, and that life is love,
laughter, and work. Elbert Hubbard

TWENTY-SIXTH

If we knew how to look around
us we should not need to look up.

Margaret Fuller

TWENTY-SEVENTH

A wide-spreading, hopeful dispo-
sition is your only true umbrella in
this vale of tears. j, Q, Aldrich

Jxxrv^

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Aim to give rather than to get.

Katharine H. Newcomb

TWENTY-NINTH

Go forth to meet the shadowy fu-
ture without fear and with a manly
Heart. jean Paul Richier

THIRTIETH

He had the good part of the things
of this world, in that he could ad-
mire. Anatele France

July

Here are flowers and songs of birds.
Beauty and fragrance, wealth of

song and sound.
All Summer's glor^ thine from morn

till night.
And life too full of joy for words.

Cclia Thaxter

July

FIRST

Each day is an open door. There

is the open door of duty, the open

door of service, the open door of

kindness. H. C. Tolman

SECOND

Despatch is the soul of business.
The Earl of Chesterfield

THIRD

Go on your way unmoved— on

and on to what you are required to

do; the rest will take care of itself.

Walt Whitman

FOURTH

The world is my country and to

do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

FIFTH

It is a divine office; the divinest
we have here below, that of helping.

Carl^fle
SIXTH

"No man can think rightfully
about things unless he knows how to
do those things."

July

SEVENTH

Worry is nothing but a diluted,
dribbling fear. . . . See that all the
hours of the day are so full of inter-
esting and healthful occupations that
there is no chance for worry to stick
its nose in. q,^ i^i},^^ //. q^h^

EIGHTH

Through the wide world he only
is alone who lives not for another.

Rogers

NINTH

It is something, to be sure, to be
charitable with our money; but far
greater is charity of thought.

Staunton D. Kirkham

TENTH

Have you the will? Leave God
t^ie way. Bron^ning

ELEVENTH

"Hands that ope but to receive
Empty close — they only give
Richly who can richly live.'*

July

TWELFTH
A man of fifty is responsible for
his face. Stanton

THIRTEENTH
Honesty first; then courage; then
brains. Theodore Roosevelt

FOURTEENTH
Teach me your word, O patient
stars !
Who climb each night the ancient

sky.
Leaving no space, no shade, no scars.
No trace of age, no fear to die.

Emerson

FIFTEENTH

It is the "every days" that count.
You must make them tell, or the
years have failed. William C. Gannett

. SIXTEENTH

You, I am sure, are honest and
kind; then believe that God is hon-
est and kind also. T. Trorvard

July

SEVENTEENTH

The only helpless people in the
world are the lazy.

General Armstrong

EIGHTEENTH

Love is the sanctifying element in
life and reverent admiration is the
perfect human gift. piuskin

NINETEENTH

The hopeful quality in man is his
capacity for improvement.

Dr. Paul Dubois

TWENTIETH

The best investment any of us can
make in this world is each day to set
about doing something, however
small or big, that will cheer the path-
way of some one else.

/. D. Rockefeller

TWENTY-FIRST

"People who are true themselves
have rarely to complain of untruth
in others."

July

TWENTY-SECOND

"Dear Lord, since Thou didst make

the earth.
Thou mad'st it not for grief, but
mirth ;
Therefore will I be glad.
And let who will be sad."

TWENTY-THIRD

Give yourself in your philan-
thropy. Richard T. El\)

TWENTY-FOURTH
We do not go to heaven; heaven
comes to us. Frederick D. Hedge

TWENTY-FIFTH

Meet a problem normally, simply

— let it solve itself. In nine cases out

of ten, if we leave it alone and live

as if it were not, it will solve itself.

Annie Payson Call

TWENTY-SIXTH

The sacredness, if there is ziny, is
all in yourself and not in the place.

Thoreau

July

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Have many tastes and one hobby.

LecJi})

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Not a day passes over the earth
but men and women of no note do
great deeds, speak great words, or
suffer noble sorrows. Charles Reade

TWENTY-NINTH

The one thing human beings
want is human sympathy.

C. H. Henderson

THIRTIETH

We become like those we habit-
ually admire. f{c„ry, Drummond

THIRTY-FIRST

Die whenever we may, I want it
said of me by those who know me
best, that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I knew
a flower would grow. Lincoln

August

The asters now put on the lavender
Of grief remembered, yet grief
half-assuaged —

The tender purple in the sky astir

Upon the ground in little stars

engaged.

William Shattuck

August

FIRST

Every day has the possibility of
being the greatest of days.

Staunton D. Kirkham

SECOND

"One with another and for an-
other."

THIRD

A revolution is being wrought in
the conscience of mankind, and this
is only the beginning.

Joseph Wingaie Folk

FOURTH

It is a great part of the comfort

and success of life to recognize one's

limitations and be reconciled to them.

Bradford Torres

FIFTH

I hold that Christian grace abounds
Where charity is seen.

Alice Care}f
SIXTH

The great secret of success in life
is for a man to be ready for his op-
portunity when it comes. Disraeli

August

SEVENTH

Rejoice with the stars and the
birds. Count your blessings. Re-
habilitate the memory of the good
and the joyful; and if Hfe seems too
hard for the time being, take it on
trust with the simplicity of a child.
Horatio Dresser

EIGHTH

Look to your radiations.

Felix Adler

NINTH

In this broad earth of ours.

Amid the measureless grossness and

the slag.
Enclosed and safe within its central

heart
Nestles the seed perfection.

Walt Whitman

TENTH

"Dear, there is always something
left. One can always be brave."

August

ELEVENTH

Every soul of us had to do its fight
with the untoward, and for itself dis-
cover the unseen. Rmkin

TWELFTH

Men are growing more social. It
is the divine element in them which
is drawing them together.

Washington Gladden

THIRTEENTH
"Progress must be growth.'*

FOURTEENTH

The wisest man could ask no more

of fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly,

true.
Safe from the many, honored by the

few. Lon>ell

FIFTEENTH

Sorrow is vain and despondency
sinful. Bron>mng

August

SIXTEENTH

Truth never wounds ; it is the way
we speak it that offends.

Katharine H. Newcomb

SEVENTEENTH
A high aim is curative as well as
^^^^' Emerson

EIGHTEENTH

"One asks for sun, an' one for rain.
An* sometimes bofe together;

I prays for sunshine in my heart.
An' den forgits de weather."

NINETEENTH

The key to most of the evils in our

neighbors may be found in ourselves.

Margaret Collier Graham

TWENTIETH

Two infants reasoning in the
womb about the nature of this life
might be no unhandsome type of two
men reasoning about the life that is
to come. Carhle

August

TWENTY-FIEIST

Let us look at the road by which
the fault has come. Victor Hugo

TWENTY-SECOND

A merry heart doeth good like a
medicine. Proverbs 17:22

TWENTY-THIRD

Thou shalt be served thyself by

every sense
Of service which thou renderest.

E. B. BroTpning

TWENTY-FOURTH

I paint my character into my pic-
ture ; I write it into my poem ; I build

it into my house.

Staunton D. Kirkham

TWENTY-FIFTH

All philosophy is a search for
God. Plato

TWENTY-SIXTH

"Joy lies in the doing.
And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize."

August

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Look for the beautiful and you
will find it in unexpected places.

S. V. Cole

TWENTY-EIGHTH

I cim unaware of emything that has

a right to be called an impossibility.

Thomas B. HuxUy

TWENTY-NINTH
Cultivate a trcinquil habit. Let
trifles go. Bishop Fallows

THIRTIETH

There is no such thing as old age
as long as you Wcint to go on.

Ines Haines Gilmore

THIRTY-FIRST

**I thank thee, Lord, for strength of
arm

To win my bread.
And that beyond my need is meat

For friend unfed.
I thank thee much for bread to live,
I thank thee more for bread to give."

AUTUMN

Let budcling spring be tlune,

And autumn brown and debonaire —
Daysthatdarken and nights that shine—

Let all the round year be thy fare.
Hemy Van Dyke-

SoptQmbGr

**No sorrow upon the landscape

weighs.
No grief for the vanished summer

days;
But a sense of peaceful and calm

repose
Like that which age in autumn

knows. "

SpplQiribGP

FIRST

Simplify, simplify. Instead of
three meals a day, if it is necessary
eat but one; instead of a hundred
dishes, five; and reduce other things
in proportion. Thoreau

SECOND

The world is not bad. It 's good
— thoroughly good. You simply
have to touch it right.

Jacob A. Riis

THIRD

"God gives us all some small sweet
way
To set the world rejoicing."

FOURTH

':^ Let us know that every quality in
us is calling to the same quality in
others. — C. B. Patterson

FIFTH

He masters whose spirit masters.
Walt Whitman

SIXTH

"Speak gently! 't is a little thing
Dropped in the heart's deep well :

The good, the joy that it may bring
Eternity shall tell."

SEVENTH
The art of living to-day is the art
of rejection. ;v. S. Shaler

EIGHTH

The sovereign voluntary path to
cheerfulness ... is to sit up cheer-
fully, to look round cheerfully, and
to act and speak as if cheerfulness
were already here. William James

NINTH

A man's best things are nearest him.
Lie close about his feet.

R. Moncton Milnes

TENTH

This world's improvement is for-
ever sure. Carble
ELEVENTH

*'I wish, I will, I can — these are
the trumpet notes that lead on to vic-
tory.*'

TWELFTH

Just one song to the world repeat:

This man loved and found life sweet.

Herbert Muller Hopkins

THIRTEENTH

My business is not to remake myself

But make the absolute best of what

God made. Browning

FOURTEENTH

I have never had a policy. I have
simply tried to do what seemed best
as each day came. Lincoln

FIFTEENTH

Trust not to each accusing tongue.
As most weak persons do.

But still believe that story false
Which ought not to be true.

Sheridan

SIXTEENTH

I am bound to praise the simple
life because I have lived it and found
it good. John Burroughs

Spptombor

SEVENTEENTH

The human heart is like heaven.
The more angels the more room.

Frederika Bremer

EIGHTEENTH

The difficulty with most of us is
that we are ignorant and weak. . . .
It is time we educated ourselves in
hygiene, diet, and purity.

James H. West

NINETEENTH

The woman's cause is the man's;
they rise or sink together, dwarf* or
godlike, bond or free. Tenny/son

TWENTIETH

"All time spent in bemoaning the
past is wasted. . . . Drop the past
moment and be glad you live to re-
deem it."

TWENTY-FIRST

It is the effort that deserves praise,
not the success. Rmkm

TWENTY-SECOND

The very name and appeareinces
of a happy mcin breathe of good na-
ture, and help the rest of us to live.
R. L. Stevenson

TWENTY-THIRD

Politeness is real kindness kindly
expressed. y. Wilherspoon

TWENTY-FOURTH

What we seek we shall find.

Emerson

TWENTY-FIFTH

"The soul
Shall have society of its own rank.
Be great, be true, and all great souls

Shall flock to you and tarry by your

side.
And comfort you with their high

compciny."

TWENTY-SIXTH

All free and daring souls have be-
fore them a well-nigh limitless op>-
portunity for endeavor of every kind.
Theodore Roosevelt

TWENTY-SEVENTH

'Somehow, I never feel like good
lings belong to me till I pass them
|on to somebody else."

TWENTY-EIGHTH

The measure of any life is its love.
A. M. C. Dupee

TWENTY-NINTH

Honest toil is holy service.
Faithful vs^ork is praise cuid prayer.
Henry Van D'sk^

THIRTIETH

"When you are lonely seek some
other lonely one to cheer."

Oetobpp

As fruits and leaves and the day

itself acquire a bright tint just before

they fallj so the year nears its setting.

October is its sunset s^y, November

the later twilight.

Thoreau

Oetobop

FIRST

It is the glory of life that it is new
every day; new in its hopes, its en-
deavors, its toils. //. C. Tolman

SECOND

The object of education is not toj
teach how to gain a living, but to
teach us how to live. y. f. MmgeTf

THIRD

Books are good enough in their
way, but they are a mighty blood-
ies? substitute for life.

R. L. Stevenson

FOURTH

We ask advice but we mean ap-
probation. Colton
FIFTH

Everything is possible, if you will
only be energetic euid independent
and seize opportunity by the scruff
of the neck.

"Elizabeth and Her German Garden"

SIXTH

"Take life as you find it but don'^
leave it so."

Oetobpp

SEVENTH

The music that suits me best- —
When I'm tired, gives me rest —
Is to have a Httle child
Gurgle out in laughter vn\d
And just laugh and laugh its best.
Mrs. Stanley

EIGHTH
What v^e truly need will come to
us- C. B. Patterson

NINTH
This life is a training and a pass-
age* Browning

TENTH

If the day and night are such that
you greet them with joy, and life
emits a fragrance like flowers and
sweet-scented herbs — is more elastic,
starry, and immortal — that is your
success. Thoreau

ELEVENTH

Appeal to the divine in any indi-
vidual and he will always respond.

Katharine H. Newcomb

Oetobop

TWELFTH
They who are of Hke mind are our
kindred. Staunton D. Kirkham

THIRTEENTH

Do something for somebody. Not
only mingle with people, but lend a
hand whenever you can. s. V. Cole

FOURTEENTH

"The joy of life lies not in attain-
ment, but in attaining."

FIFTEENTH

Your success and happiness lie in

you. External conditions are the

accidents of Hfe, its outer trappings.

Bishop Fallows

SIXTEENTH

Good manners are made up of
petty sacrifices. Emerson

SEVENTEENTH

"God is never so far off

As even to be near;
He is within; our spirit is

The home He holds most dear."

Oetobpp

EIGHTEENTH

Even in the life that is most ordi-
nary, the part that is done for God
is enormous. The lowest of men
would rather be just than unjust.

Renan

NINETEENTH

It *s the things which bore you
that kill you, not the fatiguing ones.

W. M. Hunt

TWENTIETH

"The man who finds the world
full of mean people is himself a
mean soul."

TWENTY-FIRST

A loving heart is the beginning of
all knowledge. Carl^le

TWENTY-SECOND

It is a very old and a very tme
saying that failure is the only high-
road to success. /^. i^, Stevenson

Oetobop

TWENTY-THIRD

Be sure that whenever you make
an unselfish effort to comfort amother,
you will get a glimpse of the face of
the Master. "John, the Unafraid "

TWENTY-FOURTH

He who is plenteously provided
for from within needs but little from
without. Coethe

TWENTY-FIFTH

"Our Father, thou art giving us
blessings all the time; help us to be
a blessing."

TWENTY-SIXTH

Nay, she aimed not at glory; no

loser of glory she;
Give her the glory of going on, and

still to be. Tenn\fson

TWENTY-SEVENTH

To feel brave, act as though we

were brave, use all our will to that

end, and a courage fit will very likely

replace the fit of fear.

IVilliam James

Oetobop

TWENTY-EIGHTH

"Do your best, then take whatever
comes without flinching. Every ex-
perience can be turned to good ac-
count."

TWENTY-NINTH

Love
Is a short word that says so much.

Browning

THIRTIETH

Cast your bread upon the waters
and after many days it shall return
to you buttered. Mrs. A. B. Alcott

THIRTY-FIRST

I have no creed but love; is there a
hell
Where some poor tortured thing
cries out in pain?
Then let me take his hand and wish
him well
And wait until he finds his heaven
again. Rossiter W^e

"Hurrah for November! n>e all will
sa}f.

For he brings the happy Thanks-
giving Day.

Now we give thanks to the Father
above

For the harvest blessings that come
from His love."

Novc^mbpp

FIRST

What each day needs, that shalt

thou ask.
Each day will set its proper task.

Coethe

SECOND

No profit grows where no pleasure
is la en. Shakespeare

THIRD

An arm of aid to the weak;
A friendly hand to the friend-
less;
Kind words so short to speak.

But whose echo is endless:
The world is wide, these things are

small.
They may be nothing, — but they are
s"* Richard Moncion Mllnes

FOURTH

Nothing ever becomes real till it
is experienced — even a proverb is no
proverb to you till life has illustrated
it. Keats

NovQiubpr

FIFTH

Life is the original school— life,
domestic and social. Davidson

SIXTH

The only thing that walks back
from the tomb with the mourners and
refuses to be buried is character.

W. M. Hunt

SEVENTH

To be feared of a thing and yet to
do it, is just what makes the prettiest
kind of a man. /^. /^. Stevenson

EIGHTH

( Appreciate the goodness and the
''; beauty in the conditions of your daily
life .... and your heart will
( be so full of thcinksgiving there will
i be no room in it for discontent, un-
I rest, or any of the host of evil pas-
l sions that lie in wait to murder hu-
man happiness. Horace Fletcher

Novc^mbpp

NINTH

Let us be sure our enemy is not
the hateful being we are apt to paint
him. Carl\)le

TENTH

Let thy day be to thy night

A letter of good tidings. Let thy

praise
Go up as the birds go up, that when

they wake
Shake off the dew eind soar.

Jean Ingelow

ELEVENTH

Nothing will supply the want of
sunshine to peaches, and to make
knowledge valuable you must have
the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Emerson

TWELFTH

There is no sin save unkindness.

"John, the Unafraid"

THIRTEENTH

It is the heart and not the brain
That to the highest doth attain.

Longfellorv

FOURTEENTH

It tastes af brotherliness — one of
the sweetest tastes I know, and yet
one that the poorest of us can be giv-
ing away every day.

Wilfred T. Crenfell

FIFTEENTH

[ "Be merry

When life goes along like a song;
But the man worth while is the man
who will smile
When everything goes dead
wrong."

SIXTEENTH

If we have attained so far as to
speak no lies let us make the nobler
effort to live none, lyji^ Maria Child

SEVENTEENTH

All leads up higher.
All shapes out dimly the superior

race.
The heir of hopes too fair to turn out

false. Browning

Novi^mbpp

EIGHTEENTH

"Children receive gracefulness
from nature, and learn awkwardness
from man."

NINETEENTH

He is blessed over all mortals who
loses no moment of the passing Ufe
in remembering the past. Thoreau

TWENTIETH

"The man who knows the world
is the man who knows the worst
of it."

TWENTY-FIRST

The art of arts, the glory of ex-
pression and the sunshine of letters,
is simplicity. iValt Whitman

TWENTY-SECOND

"Kings are to serve the people.
And wealth is to serve the poor.

And learning to lift up the lowl^.
And strength that the weak may
endure."

NovG^mbpp

TWENTY-THIRD

The fall of man consists of his
dropping into subjection to his zuii-
mal nature. fjcnr^ Wood

TWENTY-FOURTH

"Nothing can be more useful to a
man than a determination not to be
hurried."

TWENTY-FIFTH

That love for one, from which doth

not spring
Wide love for all, is but a worthless

thing. Lor^cll

TWENTY-SIXTH

Watch lest prosperity destroy
generosity. Hem^ Ward Beecher

TWENTY-SEVENTH

"Out of the narrow and cramping
Into a service of loving deeds ;
Out of a separate, limited plan
Into the Brotherhood of Man,

This is our resurrection!"

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Freedom is a conquest, not a be-
quest. Booker T. Washington

TWENTY-NINTH

"We and God have business vsith
each other; and in opening ourselves
to His influence our deepest destiny
is fulfilled."

THIRTIETH

"He who would grow, who would
feel his soul expand, should never
let a day pass without trying to see
some beautiful thing,"

WINTEE

"It is pleasant to think, just under the
snow
That stretches so bleak and blank
and cold,
Are beauty and warmth that we can-
not know,
Green fields and leaves and blossoms
of gold."

DpCQiribpp

" *Help one another* the snorvflakes

said.
As they cuddled down in their fleecy

bed.
*One of us here would quickly melt;
But ril help ^ou and ^ou help me.
And then what a splendid drift we'll

he: "

DQCombpr

FIRST

What a child cannot understand
of Christianity no one need to.

Ruskin

SECOND

One ought to assume that one is in
society, that one is society.

Lilian Whiting

THIRD

It is necessary to be more on our
guard against pride than against a
conflagration. Hegel

FOURTH

You may not believe in God, or
heaven, or hell, or anything else.
You may call yourself an atheist un-
til you are black in the face, but if
you kiss away the hurt of a little
child you believe in Christ for the
moment. i^, j. Stead

FIFTH
Men make the hits, but not the
misses. Bacon

SIXTH

"All is not wrong so long as
wrong seems wrong."

SEVENTH
Leave thy temple and search for
a heart. Omar Khayyam

EIGHTH

An easy thing, O Power Divine,
To thank Thee for these gifts of

Thine,
The Summer's sunshine, Winter's

snow.
The hearts that kindle, words that

glow.
But when shall I attain to this —
To thank Thee for the things I miss?
T, W. Higginson

NINTH

Good nature is a great part of
morals. Loivell

TENTH

/ "Fear not hard things but fear the
/easy things."

Docembpp

ELEVENTH

Every man must do his own grow-|
ing, no matter how tall his grand-j
father was. J. K. Beecher^

TWELFTH

I never learned anything, not even
standing on my head, but I found use
for it* Fleming Jenkin

THIRTEENTH

Life means a chance to be help-
ing lame dogs over the stiles, a
chance to be cheering cund helping to
bear the burdens of others.

Wilfred T. Crenfell

FOURTEENTH

"Court the fresh air day and
night. Oh, if you knew what was in
the air!"

FIFTEENTH

There can be no fairer cumbition
than to excel in talk; to be affable,
gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

R. L. Stevenson

DQCGiribpp

SIXTEENTH

"You must walk with your eyes
as well as your feet."

SEVENTEENTH

I am startled that God can make
me so rich even with my own cheap
stores. It needs but a few wisps of
straw in the sun, some small word
dropped, or that has long lain silent
in a book. Thoreau

EIGHTEENTH

"It isn *t the thing that you do, dear,

But the thing that you leave un-
done.
Which gives you the bitter heartache

At the setting of the sun, —
The tender word forgotten.

The letter you did not write.
The flowers you did not send, dear.

Are your haunting ghosts to-
night."

NINETEENTH

"Simplicity and sunshine will heal
most ills."

D€H?9ihbpr

TWENTIETH

When we discuss spiritual topics
witfi those who differ from us, we
speak two languages. Balzac

TWENTY-FIRST

There is no age to the spirit that
lives in high sentiments.

L^dia Maria Child

TWENTY-SECOND

Never have more than one kind oil
trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds — all they have had, all
they have now, and all they expect
to have. Edward Everett Hale

TWENTY-THIRD

Our lives must climb from hope to

hope
And realize our longing. Loufell

TWENTY-FOURTH

"The highest Is generally among
the aged, the poor, and the infirm.'*

DQCQiribpp

TWENTY-FIFTH

If we*re happy Christmas, why
not the day before, an' the day that
follows, an' sQjbn, evermore?

' Wilbur D. Nesbii

TWENTY-SIXTH
Making heaven on earth is the
real business of every human being.
Lilian Whiting

TWENTY-SEVENTH
"Don't carry the whole world on
your shoulders, far less the universe.
Trust the eternal.'*

TWENTY-EIGHTH

I know that love is never wasted.
Nor truth, nor the breath of a
prayer;
And the thought that goes forth as a
blessing
Must live as a joy in the air.

Lucy Larcom

TWENTY-NINTH

A man preaching from his earnest
soul into the earnest souls of men : is
not this virtually the essence of all
churches whatsoever? Carlyle

DpCGinbpp

THIRTIETH

Whilst we converse with what is
above us, we do not grow old, but

grow young This old

age ought not to grow on a human

^^^' Emerson

THIRTY-FIRST

The public honesty which makes
business on a credit basis possible is
the kingdom of God. The public
school is the kingdom of God. In-
ternational law and international
peace based on international law is
the kingdom of God. The distribu-
tion of wealth is the kingdom of
God. The kingdom of God is here.
Lyman Abbott

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